Ecampus Schedule of Classes - Winter 2027

College of Liberal Arts

ANTH 283 – +Introduction to Medical Anthropology (3)

Examines biological, social and structural determinants of human health in the United States and cross-culturally with a central focus on how local and global inequities in the distribution of power and wealth determine health and disease patterns. Emphasizes the ways structural, institutional, and ideological oppression undermine wellbeing, producing conditions of dis-ease using historical and contemporary examples of difference, power, and oppression across cultural, economic, and political institutions. Explores Community resilience and approaches to dismantling systems of oppression as mechanisms for restoring health. This course may be subject to Enforced Prerequisites that restrict registration into the course. Check the offerings below for more information.

Course Attributes
CoreEd-Diff, Power&Oppression

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